I used to work for the foundry, which is the equivalent of Adobe, but for the film industry.

Before that I worked at a number of VFX houses.

What I love so much about listening to "filmies" is that their insistence that film grain is authentic. (fortunately this video is matter of fact, unlike the vast majority of people spewing out opinion on such things, the presenter actually seems to know what they are talking about)

Most of the film grain you've seen in the last ten years (possibly since about 2000) is fake. Certainly if there is any VFX work, then the film grain has been "degrained" and then put in back afterwards. (I'm not talking monsters, I mean set extensions, sky removals, general touchup.)

And yes, that even includes movies that were shot on real film. Which was most films up until about 2010-12

I usually do my grain matching with a custom gizmo I've made. But then again, I'm a compositor, so I'm not so much concerned with grain as an artistic tool as I am with matching whatever the original footage looked like.

I use my own grain gizmo for grain matching. More accurately, noise matching, since it's pretty rare for me to get plates shot on film these days, and the digital noise modern cameras produce is quite different from film grain, so film grain tools don't necessarily do a very good job matching it. At least that's been my experience.

Edit: But yes, mostly if you can see grain in a big budget feature film, it's been added afterwards, as the production quite likely didn't even use a camera that produces film-like grain.

This is a site unaffiliated with the video creator (Nerdwriter1) that adds no meaningful content on top of that which is included in the video. Would it be possible to link directly to the video instead? https://youtube.com/watch?v=4PcpGxihPac

>during the era when film was the only choice many photographers tried hard to eliminate this aspect of film processing.

Not always, during my days of film i (and many photogs) used to love Tri-x due to the characteristic grain and contrast even pushing the process to extremes like ISO 1600 or 3200 to exagerate such qualities. Now i find digital noise or film grain simulators horrible.

I guess it would also discard whatever text you put in and replace it with a mashup of sentences from obscure Cuban revolutionaries and conversation fragments overheard from a couple fighting in the street in Paris.